Umbrella drip-cup



(No Model.)

H. ROHRER.

UMBRELLA DRIP CUP.

No. 425,109. Patented Apr. 8,1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()EFICE.

HENRY ROHRER, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

UMBRELLA DRIP-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,109, dated April 8, 1890.

Application filed December 20, 1889. Serial No. 334,464. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY ROHRER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Umbrella Drip-Cups, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in drip-cups for umbrellas; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide a dripcup in which the umbrella-stick is protected from the water which may be caughtin the cup, and, second, to retard the discharge .of water from the cup when the umbrella is raised, and thereby avoid wetting the person carrying said umbrella or others standing near by. I accomplish these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side viewof a drip-cup attached to the stick of an umbrella. Fig. 2 is a top view of the cup, the stick being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the cup.

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the details of the drawings, A represents the umbrella, B the stick, and C the cup, having a flaring or bell mouth a.

D is the top of the cup,'ha'ving a concave upper surface and provided with perforations cl. and E is a sleeve extending from the top to and through the bottom of the cup and which encircles the stick and prevents water in the cup from being brought into contact therewith and rotting and otherwise injuring the same.

f is a rubber collar, which engages the sleeve E just below the top D, and His an annular curtain or cover which extends beneath the bottom of the top D outward beyond the perforations d. This curtain is thickest where it joins the collar f, and thence it tapers outward to the edge, where it is quite thin. WVhen the umbrella is raised, this curtain covers the perforations (l and prevents the sudden discharge of water in the cup. The movement of the water occasioned by the swaying of the umbrella after it is raised causes it to lift the edge of the curtain on one side and another thereof and escape gradually through the perforations d. The dotted lines g, Fig. 3, show the position of the curtain when the cup is inverted. In the construction of this cup the arrangement of the perforations (Z may be varied and the inner surface of the top D may be made flat or concave, as may be deemed preferable; but the curtain must be of such diameter as to cover all of the perforations (1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a drip-cup for umbrellas, the combination, with the cup and stick, of a perforated top and a curtain secured inside of said top and extending over the perforations therein, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a drip-cup for umbrellas, the combination, with the cup, of a perforated top, a sleeve adapted to take over the stick and extending from the top to the bottom of the cup, a collar embracing the sleeve inside of the top, and a curtain attached to the collar and extending outward and covering the perforations in the top, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

HENRY ROHRER.

Witnesses:

JAooB H ALBACH, WMF R. GEEHART. 

